Marley and Me... A very nice and touching movie.
It has been a while since I last indulged myself in watching a romantic comedy. Although I love fighting scenes and action-packed stunts which keep me at the edge of my seat, there are also times when I craved for more emotional and touching yet hilarious love stories.
"Marley and Me" can be best described as a hilarious yet touching love story for family. The impact of the movie of course will be greater if you happened to be someone who has just gotten married and is gearing up to travel the wonderful path laid in front of you and your new life partner. Although this love story is very suitable to those who are in a relationship (a very good movie for couples) it is also a great one to be watched together with friends.
Directed by David Frankel and starred by Owen Wilson (as John Grogan) and Jennifer Aniston (as Jennifer Grogan), it started with the scene of two of them just married. Jennifer is a person who does a lot of planning for her life. She sticks to her plans and accomplishes them in stages whereas John is a very understanding and easy to live with husband who loves his family very much. Both John and Jennifer strived till the end for the best of their family but there are times when things are not going as smooth as predicted causing them to flare into temper and lose their cool. John and Jennifer kick start their new marriage life along which they adopted a very playful labrador (Marley) which John gives to Jennifer as her birthday present. As naughty as Marley can be, he brings lots of tears and laughter to the couple through their ups and downs.
Things start to get a little out of control when Jennifer gives birth to their son. After the birth of their second son, Jennifer has to sacrifice her career in order to be a fulltime mom. Proven from the movie (as well as in real life), it's not an easy task to manage a family. There are times when the exhaustion is so intense that both John and Jennifer get into destructive arguments.
One good thing about watching a family movie like this is that there are a lot of lessons for us to pick up along the way. Different people in different states of mind pick up different ideas from a same movie like this. As for myself, this movie shows me how important it is for couples to go through hard times together, to actually make time for each other to voice up their discontent and to find solutions together no matter how busy they are. Conflicts that are not resolved promptly will lead to more complication as much as illness not treated soon enough will grow chronic.
It also shows me how important it is for us to treasure the moment we go through everyday be it during the ups or downs and even during the very downs. Life is never a fairy tale. Even a fairy tale has its share of tears and grievances (it's not a happy thing to be poisoned by the apple, neither is it great to have a bad "step" mother who keep on "stepping" on your back). Whether we like it or not, there are not joy without sorrow and there are no laughter without tears. The ups and downs are what give our life it's color. Else, we'd better be robots.
The movie which run for about 2 hours is definitely a must see movie of the year. My thumbs up for "Marley and Me".
Some of the screen shots from the movie:
This is not from the movie (a picture of the Eric Dane-as Sebastian)
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